I just learned about the passing of an amazing woman who is no stranger to WordPress.com.
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The Scottish Labour Party conference last week overwhelmingly passed a motion highly critical of the Scottish Executive's decision to restrict pension rights for local government workers.
Speaker after speaker attacked the executive's stance. Tom McCabe, the local government minister, was heckled with cries of "shame" as he tried to answer for the government.
All this took place despite a vocal appeal for unity from Lesley Quinn, the general secretary of the Scottish Labour Party. Making the first major speech of the day at the Aviemore conference centre, Quinn warned the party that it could not afford to be wracked by splits and divisions with an election looming.
But Mike Brider of the T&G union warned of strike action unless the executive reversed its decision. "This is unjust and strikes at the heart of working people's pay and conditions," he said. "The strength of feeling on this issue is absolutely clear.
"It's important we recognise that the proposed changes to the local government pension scheme will impact upon thousands of workers in a wide range of occupations in Scotland.
Linda Miller of Amicus warned the conference that if they thought pensioners were living in poverty now, "just wait and see what it will be like if the Scottish Executive gets its way".
The executive has argued that it had no choice but to ditch the rule of 85 because of European law, although this has been comprehensively disproved. The conference passed a motion overwhelmingly calling on it to look again at its legal advice and to reach a compromise with the unions to avoid strike action.
The unions should pile on the pressure to make McCabe back off entirely and should not accept some terrible deal. If Scotland was forced to take a different position to Westminster it would be a huge blow to New Labour's plans.


The three levels of energy are like the point, line and plane.
1. The root of the energies (in the ten hidden spheres) is like the point -- completely shapeless and amorphous, utterly unified and part of the essence, without any expression and definition.
2. The energies as they emerge post-tzimtzum are like the line, that extends and transmits (length) from the point, yet is still relatively formless. this can be explained in two ways: a) The line is transmitting the energy in gradations, reaching to the lowest levels, like an ideas that is being conveyed from teacher to student, with examples and contexts that reach all levels, even the beginner student. b) The line is made up of points -- it only reveals the essential and formless nature of the point as it stands abstract in the teacher's mind (but does not bring it down to lower levels), and remains relatively shapeless. Like the Mishne, which reveals the point of the written Torah, yet remains amorphous compared to the Gemara. The line is like the word of nekudim -- a line made up of many points -- compared to akudim, where all the energies were bound in one point.
3. The third level in the energies, how they manifest in the containers, is like the plane, where the energies are totally integrated and internalized, to the point that they actually assume definition and personality, commensurate with the containers, and as such have the power to create the lower worlds of Beriyah, Yetzirah, Asiyah (biy"a).
This explains the level of Atzilus: the spirit of Moses was imparted upon the elders, and that allowed for the transmission of meat (Numbers Chapter 11). Two steps were necessary for this to happen: the imparting of Moses' spirit, since all transmissions come from Moses; the manifestation in this energy in the containers (the elders), which allows for the transmission even of meat.


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William Graham Sumner (October 30, 1840 – April 12, 1910) was a classical liberal scholar. Among his works are What Social Classes Owe to Each Other and numerous essays. One of the most well-known of those is "The Forgotten Man."
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RTÉ Investigates
Teenager jailed for stabbing another teen with bottle
Updated / Monday, 21 Dec 2020 20:08
The defendant was before Cork Circuit Criminal Court
A teenager who repeatedly stabbed another teenager with a broken glass vodka bottle, after he refused to give him €2 for a bus fare has been jailed for 18 months.
The defendant turned 18 since the attack in the Waterpark area of Carrigaline in County Cork in June of this year.
Cork Circuit Criminal Court was told that the youth, who cannot be named for legal reasons, left the 17-year-old "for dead".
Detective Garda Declan Healy of Carrigaline Garda Station said the incident happened after 10pm on 6 June when the victim was approached by teenagers who told him to hand over €2 for a bus fare.
The teenager declined to give them the money.
Det. Garda Healy said another teenager, not before the court, punched the victim in the face and knocked him to the ground. While he was on the ground, the defendant picked up a glass bottle and smashed it over the victim's head.
Judge Seán Ó Donnabháin heard how he then used the broken bottle to stab the injured teen in the back while he was lying on the ground.
The boy was stabbed six times, but according to Det. Garda Healy thankfully avoided long lasting physical injuries.
The victim's phone fell out of his pocket in the attack and the defendant fled the scene with it.
The attack was filmed by another youth and put online.
In a victim impact statement, the mother of the injured party said the family had been left devastated by the "frenzied" attack.
She said when she arrived at the scene she saw her son being transported on to a stretcher into an ambulance. The scene, she said, resembled a crime shot from the show CSI.
"It was a needless and frenzied attack - it was devastating for my son and for our family. This was every parent's nightmare. We believed our son was dead. Social media added another layer of hurt."
She said she felt sick with anxiety when her son and his other siblings were out of the house and not contactable by phone.
"We are haunted by the nightmare scene of our son lying in the back of an ambulance being bandaged and telling us he didn't do anything wrong. It will remain with us for the rest of our lives."
Judge Ó Donnabháin condemned the filming and sharing of the video. He said the defendant showed an extreme amount of violence for a man of his age.
"There was a considerable amount of violence. He had a victim on the ground. That he should have hit him with a bottle, and then stabbed him in the back with the broken bottle."
The defendant appeared before the court on a signed plea of guilty to assault causing harm contrary to Section 3 of the Non Fatal Offences Against the Person Act.
Defence Counsel Emmet Boyle BL said his client had left Cork following the incident after finding himself the subject of hatred. He has successfully engaged with support services and is very remorseful for his actions.
The 18-year-old, who has no previous convictions and has never been before the courts before, wrote to the family of his victim to apologise for his actions.
Judge Ó Donnabháin said the case merited a custodial sentence in spite of the youth of the defendant and his lack of previous convictions. He jailed him for two-and-a-half years suspending the final year of the sentence.

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Stefan Thelen, better known by his moniker Super A, is a Dutch street and gallery artist who blends urban methods, graphic design and traditional painting techniques to give life to work that evolves out of his personal experiences and thoughts. His pictorial stories seem to exist in a balance between fiction and non-fiction as Thelen's topics are a result of his amazement with rarities in our world, filtered through the view of the mysterious Super A.
The story of how Super A came to be is a rather interesting one – Super A is in fact perceived by his author as an anti superhero kind of character. As Thelen explains it himself, he needed someone that can get away with the things he himself was not able to. He also channeled strong feelings of confusion into his new alter ego as at the time Stefan was experiencing a lot of stuff that didn't feel right to him after he graduated from the Graphic Lyceum in Rotterdam. Initially, Super A started to appear sporadically in Thelen's paintings and drawings, but the anti superhero's visions and thoughts soon managed to emancipate themselves from their host. Soon, Super A began to deal with the city's underbelly sensation and the visualization of the self-side of society in a way Stefan Thelen was never able nor allowed to. As explained by the artist himself, these images can be seen as the melancholic, cynical little brothers of common picture postcards.


Chances of a deal with Goldman Sachs after mortgage sold by KBC?
Discussion in 'Mortgage arrears & negative equity case studies' started by Teckie, 22 Jan 2019.
My intrest only mortgage with KBC was sold to Goldman Sachs even though KBC forced the sale of the BTL commercial property prior to the transfer of the residual outstanding mortgage to Goldman. What are my chances of negotiating a settlement with Pepper given the rental income from the property is gone and I have no other source of income other than Old Age Pension.
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As I said before, at the end of the day, advertisers who give up advertising on Fox News will reach a lot less peiople and it's better to be boycotted by leftists on food stamps than conservatives who have jobs. One of Laura Ingraham's biggest advertisers has changed their mind and will continue to advertise on her program. They now claim that they received incomplete information and they based their decision on that too quickly. That advertiser is Ace Hardware, That's entirely possible since the boycott was led by Media matters that was co-founded by Hillary Clinton and funded by George Soros. Honesty is not the biggest suit those three wear.
Ace was singing a different tune in a statement announcing its initial decision to pull ads. "I can confirm that we do not have any plans to nationally advertise on Ingraham's show in the future," the same spokeswoman told TheWrap on April 5.
Some companies are willing to lose big money in order to be politically correct but sooner or later the stockholders will rebel and toss out current management in order to make a profit. Even mark Zuckerberg received harsh feedback during a shareholders meeting for Facebook over their far left bias. One major shareholder even suggested he resign or be removed. When you alienate half of your subscribers, growth becomes nothing more than a dream and FB is paying a price for it's bias and their lack of concern for user's privacy.


Origin In 1750, the artificial carbonated water was made by the Frenchman Gabriel François Venel for the first time.
Carbonated water is the water where the Carbon dioxide (CO2) gas has been dissolved under pressure. Some might contain the additives such as sodium bicarbonate and sodium chloride. Seltzer water possesses only carbon dioxide and water and no other additives. It is also known as Club soda, Sparkling water, Soda water, Bubbly water, Seltzer water and Fizzy water. The process of causing water to be effervescent is called carbonation. It could be found in the form of mineral waters and soft drinks. It has high content of carbon dioxide that makes the water bubbly and provides it a tangy taste. Carbonated water is slightly acidic having pH from 3 to 4. Though the carbonated water is acidic, it is rapidly nullified by saliva. Carbonated water might increase gas and bloating because carbon dioxide is released in digestive tract. The evidence shows that carbonated water might assist constipation in the people having stroke.
For centuries, the alcoholic drinks such as wine, beer and champagne was carbonated thought the process of fermentation. Sparkling wine was invented by Christopher Merret in 1662. In 1750, the artificial carbonated water was made by the Frenchman Gabriel François Venel for the first time. Henry Cavendish and William Brownrigg infused water with carbon dioxide. The method of infusing water with carbon dioxide was discovered by Joseph Priestley in 1767 when the bowl of water was suspended above beer vat in Leeds, England at a local brewery. The water had pleasant taste and offered as a refreshing drink. The invention of soda water was the happiest discovery for Priestley. In the late 18th century, a process for manufacturing carbonated mineral water was discovered by J.J. Schweppe in 1783 in Geneva. He shifted to London on 1792. In 1799, in Dublin Augustine Thwaites organized Thwaites Soda Water. The article of London Globe affirmed that it was the first company to sell soda water under that name.
The serving size of 355 grams of pepsi offers 149 calories, 41 g of carbohydrate, 41 g of total sugars and 28 mg of sodium. It does not contain any fat.
Hydration is essential for the body to maintain the health. The addition of carbonated water to the diet helps the person to become hydrated.
A glass of carbonated water helps to treat indigestion also called dyspepsia that occurs in upper abdominal area leading to nausea, bloating, vomiting and feeling full.
It also improves constipation. The carbonated water assist the fiber to work properly in gut and makes pass out of stools normally.
Fizzy water leads to gas in digestive system resulting in flatulence and burping. The intake of carbonated water quickly increases the gas in digestive tract. The people with digestive problems such as irritable bowel syndrome might get bloating or discomfort in abdomen.
Carbonated water could buildup air and lead to loud belching which could be uncontrollable. This could lead to bloating and abdominal distension. The adequate intake of carbonated water results in painful and chronic bloating.
It could lead to excessive production of stomach acid that could cause peptic ulcer and irritate stomach lining. It could lead to pain and stomach bleeding. Some could vomit blood or have black stools caused due to stomach bleeding.
It is used in cooking to provide light texture to batters and doughs.
It is used to make pancakes fluffier.
It is an alternative for sugary soft drinks.
It is a good stain remover.
It also removes fabric stains.
It is used to clean precious gems.
It helps to store a hair color.
In 1807, flavored carbonated drinks were made by Townsend Speakman in United States. Dandelions, birch bark, lemon, dandelions, coca, lemon and cola were the ingredients added.
Around 1783, German-Swiss jeweler Jacob Schweppe was the large scale producer of aerated water.
National Carbonated Beverage is on November 19 by introducing carbon dioxide into the drink under pressure to make slightly acidic.
Carbonated water possess carbon dioxide gas that is used to make liquid fizzy and bubbly. Like carbonated water it is considered to be healthy. Besides hydration, it helps to improve the health conditions such as constipation and indigestion. It is a refreshing beverage which is used as an substitute for sugary soft drinks. Carbonic acid,an acid which stimulates nerve receptors of mouth, is produce when the water and carbon dioxide react chemically. It provokes the burning and prickly sensation which might be enjoyable or irritating.
Native For centuries, the alcoholic drinks such as wine, beer and champagne was carbonated thought the process of fermentation. Sparkling wine was invented by Christopher Merret in 1662. In 1750, the artificial carbonated water was made by the Frenchman Gabriel François Venel for the first time.
Calories in 12 fl oz (355 g) 149 Kcal.
It might increase the symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome such as gas and bloating.
The sodium added carbonated waters might be problem for those having low sodium diets.
Carbonated soft drinks such as colas are harmful for health because it might lower the density of bones in older women.
Soft drinks are erosive to teeth.
It should be consumed in moderation.
It is used to provide light texture for batters and doughs.
It is used as stain remover and also removes fabric stains.
In 1807, flavored carbonated drinks were made by Townsend Speakman.
Around 1783, German-Swiss jeweler Jacob Schweppe was the producer of aerated water.
National Carbonated Beverage is on November 19.
Calories 149 Kcal. Calories from Fat 0 Kcal.
Calories 103 Kcal. Calories from Fat 0.45 Kcal.
Calories 138 Kcal. Calories from Fat 0 Kcal.


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Will there be a bakugo model?
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Tamsin Hinchley (née Barnett, born 10 March 1980) is an Australian volleyball player. Born in Adelaide, Hinchley was on the Australian indoor squad at the 2000 Summer Olympics.  At the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics, Hinchley partnered with Natalie Cook in beach volleyball.  Hinchley and Cook also partner on the Swatch FIVB World Tour, and in 2007 Hinchley was named the World Tour's most improved player.

Personal life
Tamsin is married to Al Hinchley. In 2009, she gave birth to a son, Arley K. Hinchley.

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1980 births
Living people
Australian women's volleyball players
Australian women's beach volleyball players
Olympic volleyball players of Australia
Olympic beach volleyball players of Australia
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D.C. Law Library - § 47–1801.01. Repeal of the District of Columbia Income Tax Act of 1939 for certain purposes.
↪ Subchapter I. Repeal of Prior Income Tax Law and Applicability of Subchapter; General Definitions.
↪ § 47–1801.01. Repeal of the District of Columbia Income Tax Act of 1939 for certain purposes.
Subchapter I. Repeal of Prior Income Tax Law and Applicability of Subchapter; General Definitions.
§ 47–1801.01a. Effect of repeal or amendment.
§ 47–1801.01. Repeal of the District of Columbia Income Tax Act of 1939 for certain purposes.
(5) For the allowance of refunds of overpayments of any taxes assessed under the provisions of such Act.
This section is referenced in § 42-3403.05 and § 47-1810.01.


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The miniupnpd package provides a default configuration that allows all upnp/nat-pmp requests to be successful, by default. This is a potential security hole that luci-app-upnp attempts to solve by disabling miniupnpd from starting up until the user manually enables it. That approach is less than desirable because it forces the user to manually enable it, even in prebuilt images. A different approach would be to adjust the default upnpd.config file to deny all mappings by default. miniupnpd can remain enabled, but secure, until the administrator adjust the configuration. This approach would make miniupnpd (more) secure, out of the box, for both LuCI and non-LuCI (CLI only) users.
See attached diff with moves the default deny section above the default allow section.
upnpd.config.diff (817 bytes) - added by adam2104 6 years ago.
But what is the point then? One has to manually fiddle with it in either case.
I think the point here is that with this approach the pre-built image can have a default setting as the user wants?
For this point, I think the new approach is better.
It is automatically disabled for both kinds of users. Those that user LuCI and those that don't. Thereby closing the loop on the original intent (disabled in LuCI) to apply to both cases.
When a prebuilt image is made, the default settings can easily be overwritten by including the necessary files in build_root/files/etc/upnpd.conf to override the default deny state. This allows someone with a prebuilt image to have miniupnpd enabled by default.
This seems like a very sensible change, with little potential downside.
I think it would be even better to change the init script to check for a uci variable (something like "enabled"), and only start the daemon if it is true. Then /etc/config/upnpd could ship with enabled=0.
The main disadvantage is that this is a more invasive change than what is proposed here.
miniupnpd has been moved to https://www.github.com/openwrt/packages. If this is still an issue, please open a ticket there.


Ghanaian actor and broadcaster, Chris Attoh, has gotten married again after his first marriage with Nigerian actress Damilola fell on the rocks in 2017.
The private ceremony took place at North Kaneshie in Accra on Saturday, October 6, 2018.
Citinewsroom.com's investigation proves that Chris' new wife (identified as Bettie Jenifer) is a Caribbean who is based in the United States of America.
Chris got married in 2015 to Nigerian actress Damilola Adegbite but they got divorced in 2017.
The two have a son called Brian.
Early this year, Chris said the reason most marriages don't work is that 'we' have forgotten what the fundamentals of marriage are.
"When you love someone it is important to be able to forgive, to be able to respect, to be able to submit. As a woman, you need to trust the captain of the ship. It's really important if you want peace in your home," he said.
However, he noted that he does not regret ever getting married to Nigerian actress Damilola.
"I believe that life is too short for regrets and everything happens for a reason. I have a beautiful baby boy. I have a wealth of experience and I have a lot of work to do," he added.
Few days ago, his ex-wife Damilola also granted an interview to the Punch in Nigeria suggesting that Chris is not a real man.
According to her, she was ready to marry again but this time, she needs a real man.
"This time, I will be looking out for a man; he has to be a man (in the real sense of the word). I don't try to foresee things as I prefer to live in the moment. I learnt a lot from my past experience (in marriage) and I may have to write a book about it.
There are quite a lot of things and I wouldn't want to single out one. If I single it out, it may seem like the most important one when it's not so; they are all very important." she noted.


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David Sassoon Library
David Sassoon Library is situated at Kala Ghoda in Mumbai. One of the numerous historic buildings dotting the skyline of Mumbai, this building is noted for its distinct architecture. It is named after David Sassoon, a philanthropist who bore the major portion of the construction cost.
David Sassoon Library was designed by architects named J Campbell and D E Gosling. Built in 1870, it was presented to the city by Sir Albert Sassoon, David Sasson�s son. This three-storeyed yellow stone building has a distinct Roman feel to it. The central tower and the corner turrets give this building the appearance of a church. The columns are made from Black-Trap stone and texturing is done using random rubble masonry. The facade in the ground floor features some pointed arches embellished with alternating black and white stripes. The entrance hall boasts of exquisite multi-colored Minton floor tiles. A white stone head of David Sassoon situated above the hall greets everyone. There is a winding wooden staircase connecting to the first floor. Behind the building is a beautiful garden.
Another important building in the vicinity is the Elphinstone College, which is noted for its architectural splendor.
A public library and reading room, it houses over 40,000 valuable books on all subjects in English, Hindi, Gujarati and Marathi. It also has newspapers and magazines. Other facilities include resting room, terrace and garden.


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Q: Secure google maps api key in an angular app I'm using angular and google maps.
In all the tutorials I find, the instruction says something as:
add to your index.html code:
<script src="https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?key=YOUR-API-KEY" type="text/javascript"> </script>

In this method, the API key is stored in my source code - which is not recommended.
How do I do this differently in angular?

A: usually i will restrict my api key by referrer URLs.
https://developers.google.com/maps/api-key-best-practices#apply_apikey_restrictions

A: I know this was asked a while ago but I just came across this while looking for answers to the same question. Here's what I came up with:

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*I protect my key by referrer URL.

*I created a service that holds my google maps types and modules imports. The service handles all things Google Maps API related. In the service, I created a string property of the google script tag with my api key in it, I also gave the script tag a custom id="" attribute. Then, in the constructor of my new service, I check for the existence of the tag with if ( !document.getElementById('my-custom-id') ) { append script } if the tag is not found, the constructor will append it to the <head> tag.

The intent is that the script tag is never present in the head tag unless the user is accessing a component that actually needs it. My implementation of this is behind a login, thus you need to be logged in to access the component with the Google Maps API functionality. Scrapers would need to bypass the login to find the script tag (not going to happen).

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Nerfs are imminent for Hearthstone.
Team 5 is notorious among Blizzard's game "teams". The rest of Blizzard's franchises (World of Warcraft, Starcraft, Diablo, Heroes of the Storm, Overwatch) make regular balance changes to their games, tweaking abilities here, changing health pools there, etc. Some of them do updates as frequently as weekly and are quick to descend on any obviously problematic situations (Witness: the 48-hour cycle of Zarya when first released into Heroes- from useless to godlike to balanced in two days.) Team 5 is... not that way. Despite the prevailing thought amongst the player base that being a digital card game gives HS the freedom to not have to live with sorely unbalanced situations for months on end (Skullclamp, anyone?), Team 5 has repeatedly stated that they will only alter cards as a last resort, either because of longstanding dominance/universal inclusion, as was the case with Fiery War Axe, or because of a meta that simply won't "solve itself." Team 5's design philosophy is that most card pools should have enough answers in them to counter-balance what seems to be the dominant deck and/or class. Once people find the right list, then the overall meta should adjust as one deck answers another and the carousel goes 'round until the next expansion is released to turn it upside down again.
But that's not always how this works.
A few cards from Kobolds and Catacombs have proven to be so dominant that not only are decks from that Standard meta largely the same, but they're largely the same after half the card pool was removed and replaced with The Witchwood. That sameness has also resulted in most cards from The Witchwood being ignored because almost nothing that the new set brought made any real change necessary to what had gone before (with one fairly glaring exception.) Having people ignore your brand new set isn't a good thing, either from a sales standpoint or that of variety, since the latter means that everyone is essentially playing the same game since November and will be until August if Blizzard hews to the same release schedule as before.
So last week, Blizzard announced that some changes will be made. Said changes will likely be taking place tomorrow (Tuesday) or Thursday, given Hearthstone's typical patching schedule. Whether said changes will have the impact that Blizzard expects is open to question, but I'm here to take a look and give my own carefully biased opinion.
We'll start with the one Wild format change, since I don't play Wild:
Naga Sea Witch: Mana cost changing from 5 to 8.
That's, quite obviously, a HUGE change. Most of the time (as we'll see) mana costs change by one point and still have a significant impact on a card's viability and play rate. But Naga Sea Witch has been dominating Wild play for quite some time and has resulted in a deck that can produce multiple Giants (Molten, Mountain, Arcane, etc.) very early in the game and without a way for even Wild decks to respond effectively. Slowing down NSW's appearance by three turns (or, you know, one turn if you're playing Druid) introduces the opportunity for a lot of different answers (like, say, Twisting Nether) to become available.
Spiteful Summoner: Mana cost changing from 6 to 7.
As noted, here's your typical mana cost change. Team 5's assertion is that slowing down Spiteful's appearance by a turn not only enables more answers to be drawn by the opponent, but also raises the possibility that the Spiteful player will draw one of the spells that he or she is hoping to use with the Summoner to bring in a giant minion. If the spell(s) is in your hand, your Summoner becomes a severely overcosted 4/4. The problem is that this change isn't really targeted at the most notorious example of this deck that is currently the most popular: Spiteful Druid. Druid has several methods of mana acceleration, so adding one more mana makes them the last class to likely be impacted by this change. It's true that most of those mana ramp methods involve low-cost spells that you don't want to be playing in a Spiteful Deck (Wild Growth, Innervate), but there is still the tolerable Nourish (4/4 and a 5-cost for 7 mana) and there's also Greedy Sprite, which won't interrupt your targeting of Ultimate Infestation, which is what you're really trying to get with the Summoner. But the larger problem isn't really the one extra turn that Summoner requires, but the three extra turns in which it has Tyrantus on the board. When the rotation to the Year of the Raven took place, a lot of 10-cost minions that are underwhelming in stats (Old Gods N'Zoth and C'thun, for example) left Standard. That reduced the pool of huge minions overall and particularly for Druid, since cards like Summoner tend to emphasize minions that the class could normally play. Tyrantus is a 12/12 untargetable. Only a few cards can answer him (Psychic Scream, Twisting Nether, Voodoo Doll (plus a way to get rid of it), BGH.) If you don't have one of those, you have to hope to draw one in the next two turns or you've just lost the game on a random die roll. Maybe waiting one more turn will be enough to give you that opportunity, on average, but I still think that one of the other suggested solutions (like discarding the spell used by Summoner) would have been a better approach to a card that emphasizes all of the worst aspects of Hearthstone's RNG that Team 5 remains so enamored of and much of the player base is not.
Dark Pact: Restores 4 health, instead of 8.
Changing Pact (and the next card) seems to buttress my opinion that the real problem with Cubelock decks isn't Cube. After all, if Cube were the terror that many people insist that it is, it would be present in multiple classes and multiple decks; most prominently Quest Priest, where it is utterly absent. It's not the Cube that's the problem. It's the enablers, most notable among which is Dark Pact. Back when Kobolds was previewed, a fair number of prominent streamers pointed out that the card was hugely powerful. It's cheap. It's easy to apply regardless of what type of deck you're playing. And it compensates for the one downside of the best hero power in the game. Indeed, its most frequent application is around turn 5 or 6 where it is used to recover all of the health that the Warlock player has spent the last 4 turns using to draw cards. That's, uh, not how that's supposed to work. So, now it only heals for half as much, putting it in the same realm as many other healing spells that don't get used in the game (Holy Light.) However, the difference remains: it's still a very cheap enabler for other strategies and still tends to leave Warlock in a position where it can simply do everything better (draw, heal, board clear, single-target removal, reload) than every other class in the game. Only getting half the health back is a step forward for everyone else. The fact that it can be used to regain that health while spitting out two Voidlords is something that everyone is going to have to continue to lose again- uh, live with.
Possessed Lackey: Mana cost changing from 5 to 6.
And this is why that strategy will still be viable. Yes, it will be a turn slower, which means the Lackey will bring out a 9-cost Voidlord on turn 6 with Coin, rather than turn 5. That's still three turns earlier than such a minion should be played, which is kind of the defining aspect of Kobolds and Catacombs and fully half the cards being discussed here: getting minions for free. Lackey was derided when first previewed, because no one could fathom the idea of paying 5 mana for a 2/2. But it took only a couple days for the Warlock decks running Voidlords and Doomguards to come to fruition. Waiting until turn 9 to play a Voidlord can be difficult if facing an aggro deck. No one wants to play Doomguard because of the awful Discard mechanic. But having a way to sneak out both of them without really paying their costs? Sign me (read: everyone) up! (Not to mention further weakening Shaman Evolve decks, since those were running rampant across the meta, amirite?) At this point, decks playing Lackey, Spiteful Summoner, and Call to Arms are essentially cheating. They're not paying the MSRP for the cards that they're playing. That seems to be an unbalancing effect on its face, so I'm not quite sure what Team 5's design goal was in this instance. Sure, Spiteful feeds their RNG jones, but Lackey's application is both direct and obvious. There's no "exciting" or "replayability" aspect here. In fact, most Warlock opponents would say that they're quite bored with trying to hammer their way through Voidlords by now. Slowing down their arrival by a turn may have the impact that Blizzard wants, but I find it hard to believe that this cost increase serves the same obvious function that, say, Fiery War Axe's did, since the latter opened up design space for other weapons. Delaying the use of Lackey by a turn in a deck that already relies upon waiting its opponents out in the early game doesn't seem like nearly as effective a change. The combination of this change with the reduced healing from Pact is a much stronger argument, however.
Call to Arms: Mana cost changing from 4 to 5.
CtA is, of course, the most obvious of the lot. If ever there were a card that could've been labeled: "DO NOT PRINT!" stashed somewhere in the archives, this was it. Call simply does too much for its cost. Not only does it draw three cards from your deck for 4 mana; not only does it thin out smaller minions from your deck in the midgame so you'll be more likely to draw costlier, more powerful cards later; but it puts those three cards drawn into play. Simply drawing three cards for 4 mana might be considered busted for many classes (Mage decks routinely use Arcane Intellect, which is 2 for 3.) But drawing them and playing them? That's broken. This is why every Paladin deck from Kobolds onward has been using Call to Arms. This includes attempts at Paladin Control decks, which usually go light on smaller minions. The card was simply too good not to play. For many Paladin decks that aren't Odd/Even-based, it will STILL be too good not to play at 5 mana. I can see it still finding a slot in Murloc Paladin, simply because of the multiplicative nature of the Murloc tribe (i.e. it's never a bad idea to have more of them.) But it will be removed from what is currently the best deck in the meta, Even Paladin.
That latter deck is one half of two changes that Witchwood did have on the meta: the rise of Even and Odd Paladin. First Odd and currently Even are driving their enemies before them with plenty of lamentation because of the power of the enhanced hero powers given by Baku and Genn Greymane, respectively. Getting a 1/1 for 1 whenever you want it and without taking up a card slot is good. So is getting 2 1/1s for 2 whenever you want them. The reason that Even has eventually won out over Odd is because the latter is a mono-dimensional aggro deck that often doesn't have answers for hard control or other durable minion decks. Even Paladin, OTOH, does have those answers and can shift from an aggro stance to control and back again because of access to cards like Equality and Consecration. Amusingly, despite including hoary Arena-only favorites like Amani Berzerker and Stormwind Champion, both Even and Odd Paladin included almost no Witchwood cards except for the required Genn and Baku. This was as much a condemnation as anything else of the relative weakness of Witchwood when compared to the two previous sets (Knights and Kobolds.) This nerf to CtA is enough to solve the immediate problem of Even Paladin, as well as the fading Odd, since the latter can now play Call but can't use it to summon anything more than 1-cost minions. But the overall power of the card remains ridiculous and it will remain a steady presence in non-integer-restricted Paladin decks for the rest of the Year of the Raven.
The Caverns Below: The quest reward (Crystal Core) will now make all of your minions 4/4s, instead of 5/5s.
The resurgence of Quest Rogue is the other change that Witchwood actually brought to Standard play, since it's been dominating the upper reaches of the ladder for a while and is one of those decks that Team 5 has dared to label "unfun", as it often seems like the Rogue player is ignoring anything the opponent is doing and is simply waiting to complete his solitaire combo and win the game. Since it was designed to be an answer to control decks when first released in Journey to Un'Goro (Combo > Control > Aggro > Combo, ad infinitum), it's been able to feast on the control-heavy (read: Warlock) meta at the top. The answer to Quest Rogue remains beating their face in before they can pull off their magic trick, but the ease with which they can do so, aided by a single Witchwood card (Vicious Scalehide) to regain much of the life lost in getting to that point, had turned into a problem. Interestingly, this change, although somewhat less threatening, actually makes them even more of a threat to the alternate best (read: non-Warlock) control deck currently in the meta, which is Priest, since the latter could use Shadowreaper Anduin to try to clear a board of completed Quest minions, but now will be facing a board of 4/4s about which it can do nothing (no more Dragonfire, Duskbreaker not strong enough, Shadow Words ineffective, etc.) Since Control Priest's theft mechanisms were often a great answer to Control Warlock's parade of Voidlords, it remains to be seen how making it easier to squeeze that deck out of the meta helps solve the problem of the ominpresent Warlock decks. Side note for all of you complaining that The Caverns Below is the "most nerfed card ever" because it's been changed all of twice: Unleash the Hounds and Starving Buzzard would like a word.
So, later this week, go forth into the nerfed world and see if you can get cards as bad as Lady in White to do something. Or just keep playing Murloc Paladin like you have for the last seven months. It'll still be pretty good.
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Gary Sax replied the topic: #273869 22 May 2018 10:49
Yeah, it's a bad sign when your newly released expansion doesn't change deck composition much!
Jackwraith replied the topic: #273896 22 May 2018 14:44
It's kind of hilarious. "We're introducing 18 new archetypes with Even and Odd decks! 18 new ways to play the game!"
"So, we'll use two cards out of the entire set, plus a bunch of old Arena standards, and it'll be like a whole new game? This is like when a football player starts performing better and people say: 'It's like a whole new signing!' You realize that the absolute last card that anyone wants to draw in those Even/Odd decks is the card that makes them what they are, right?"
"Um..."
"And what about all these other cards that people paid for? None of them are even as good as the two cards that no one wants to draw?"
"Well..."
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Adam Shergold, Daily Mail (London), October 30, 2012
Rescuers in Philadelphia pulled a man from the wreckage of a collapsed building on Monday – and then promptly arrested him for looting.
The abandoned three-storey building in the north of the city had been reduced to rubble after Superstorm Sandy battered the east coast of the United States.
Firefighters working to make the building safe didn't think anyone was inside, until they heard someone crawling out of the rubble.
After helping him to safety, police officers arrested him for disorderly conduct on the suspicion that he had crawled in to the building, located on Cumberland Street, looking for things to loot.
The exact cause of the building's collapse is still unknown but Philadelphia has been buffeted by 50mph gusts as a result of the storm.
It came as thousands of National Guard troops were mobilised to prevent looting sprees on homes and shops in New York and Long Island.
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Q: How to make optimal decisions with uncertain outcomes: achieving a "Yahtzee" The game of Yahtzee is a poker-like game played with dice.  Each move consists of three rolls of five (ordinary, fair, six-sided) dice.  After each of the first two rolls the player may designate any subset of the dice to re-roll.  The outcome of the move is the set of five faces at the end of this sequence of rolls.
The objective is to score points associated with various patterns, such as a "full house" (three of one value and two of another value show on the dice) or a "Yahtzee" (all five faces are the same).  A Yahtzee is the most valuable outcome, so it is of interest to know what decisions to make after the first and second rolls in order to maximize the chance of obtaining it.
If in the first roll I obtain five different numbers is it more likely to get a Yahtzee if I

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*Pick up all the dice to roll again as I am not limited to any number or

*Choose one of the numbers and attempt over the next two rolls to roll four of that number on the remaining four dice (or, I suppose get a different Yahtzee if a subsequent number becomes more likely).

A: Background and Motivation
The game of Yahtzee is a model for decision making under uncertainty: specifically, for how to make optimal decisions when confronted with a sequence of them over time.  The techniques used to analyze this game apply directly, for example, to business decisions that recur, such as whether and how much to make periodic investments in a business prospect.  Thus, some time and effort spent in understanding this simple game can provide insights into developing strategies in complex, real-world situations.
Decision Analysis
Abstractly, a "prospect" is a set $\Omega$ of possible "states" of a game, business, or other situation.  Associated with each state $\omega\in\Omega$ is a payoff $X(\omega)$ (a number which may be positive or negative).  In the simplest case of a single decision, a set of actions or "options" $\mathcal{D}(\omega)$ is available to the decision maker; they may depend on the state $\omega$.  Each option $d\in\mathcal{D}(\omega)$ leads to a probability distribution over the states $F(d)$ (which is either known or can be estimated accurately).  Thus, associated with each option $d$ is the expected value of the payoff,
$$v(d) = \mathbb{E}_{F(d)}(X).$$
The best options are those with the highest expected values.  Let $d^{*}(\omega)$ be any one of the best options for any state $\omega$.  The function
$$X^\prime(\omega) = v(d^{*}(\omega))$$
that assigns to each state the value of choosing a best option is the payoff available under optimal decision making.
(A generalization of this theory accounts for risk by replacing expected payoff by expected utility.)

This figure diagrams a prospect consisting of two states named "11" and "001", shown in the right hand column.  Associated with them are payoffs $1$ and $0$, respectively, indicating the payoff $X$.  The possible starting states, shown in the left hand column, are the same two states.  The set of all possible options is shown in the middle stack of orange nodes.  Not all options are available from each of the beginning states: those that are, are shown with arrows.  For instance, option "2" is not available from state "001" but it is available from state "11".
The probability distribution $F(d)$ associated with each option $d$ is shown by arrows pointing to the states: the chance of each state is given by a number on each arrow.  (Arrows with no numbers have probability $1$.)  The figure uses heavier arrows to show greater chances.  The expectation of each distribution has been worked out and indicated next to each option.  For instance, the value of option "1" is $3/4$ because its probability distribution assigns a chance of $3/4$ to reach state "11", whose payoff is $1$, and a chance of $1/4$ to reach "001", whose payoff is $0$.  The expectation therefore is $3/4\times 1 + 1/4\times 0 = 3/4$, as shown.
The best options available from the beginning states are shown with heavy arrows.  For instance, the four options available from state "001" are "0", "1", "01", and "001", with expected payoffs of $3/4$, $3/4$, $1/2$, and $0$, respectively.  The first two are maximal, so the best options are "0" and "1".
In this fashion such an influence diagram contains all the information needed to work out the best decision to make in any beginning state, as well as its expected value.  This one shows that $X^\prime$ assigns the value $1$ to "11" and $3/4$ to "001".
Now consider a prospect that is a sequence of decisions which will take place at discrete times indexed by $i=1, 2, \ldots, n$.  The decisions and their circumstances may vary over time, so we must index everything (including the states and the options available from them).  Optimal decisions can be made by "back-propagation" through this system, beginning at the end.  At some time $i$, $i=2, 3, \ldots, n$, assume the best payoff $X_i$ is known.  Then $X_{i-1} = X_i^\prime$ is the best payoff that will be available at time $i-1$.  Iterating from $X_n = X$ down to $X_1$ produces a sequence of payoffs (random variables) along with a sequence of optimal decisions to make in order to achieve those best payoffs.  Finally, the value of this prospect is the expectation of $X_1$ over a probability distribution governing the starting state at step $i=1$.
Computation
The calculations are amazingly simple, because they consist of a sequence of (a) finding an expectation for each option for each state and (b) selecting a best option for each state, thereby updating $X$ to $X^\prime$.  However, for large problems they can get threateningly complicated: if there are many options for each of many states, this can be a lot of work.  (Monte-Carlo methods come to the fore in such cases: when we cannot do the full calculation, we can sample from the possibilities and at least find approximately best options.)
In the present case, there is so much commonality among the options (regardless of the state) and so much similarity of the situation from one roll to the next, that with some care in designing computational data structures the entire calculation can be speedily done.  Instead of maintaining a set of options for each state, the union of all the options $\mathcal{D}=\cup_{\omega\in\Omega} \mathcal{D}(\omega)$ can be computed once and for all.  We then only have to record which elements of $\mathcal {D}$ are available for each state.  This suggests writing a universal updating function decide which will compute $X^\prime$ from $X$.  Its arguments will be the states $\Omega$ (which in Yahtzee are the same at each roll and so do not need to be indexed), the payoff vector $X$, the options $\mathcal{D}$, and a logical matrix available indicating the options available at each state.
As an example, here is an R implementation.  It assumes that states and options can be used to index into the arrays as appropriate.  When more than one option is best, it chooses randomly from the best ones (using sample).  If we assume the existence of a function argmax that identifies the highest value in an array indexed by a set of options and returns that value and one of the options associated with it, the code needs all of two lines:
values <- options %*% payoff # Expected payoff for each option
x <- lapply(states, argmax)  # Best option and its value, for each state

The first line (a fast matrix multiplication) computes expectations for all options in $\mathcal{D}$, then the second line applies argmax to all the states in $\Omega$ to obtain $X^\prime$ along with the associated best options.  You can find these lines, as well as an implementation of argmax, in the decide function listed at the end of this post.

Solution
The rest is a matter of computing the states and options for Yahtzee, along with the function $F(d)$ giving the probability distribution of states for every option.  This can be a real pain because the calculations are not simple.  Three ideas make the computation relatively simple:

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*The states, options, and probabilities can be found simply by rolling five dice in sequence and keeping track of all outcomes and probabilities as you go along.  No combinatorial mathematics is needed at all.

*The options available from a state are precisely those where the state has a nonzero probability of resulting from the option, as given in (1).

*The computation can be made highly efficient by adopting a suitable notation for the states.
In this case, the actual values showing on the dice don't matter: all we care about is how many unique values there are, how many values show twice, and so on.  A good data structure for this information is a variable-length vector whose $i^\text{th}$ entry counts the number of values showing on exactly $i$ dice.  We can terminate the vector after the last non-zero entry. To illustrate, the seven possible states in the game of Yahtzee are
$$(5),(31),(12),(201),(011),(1001),(00001).$$
(For convenience I have omitted the commas between digits.  From now on, I will omit the parentheses, too.)  The first state, $5$, represents five distinct values, such as $1, 3, 4, 5, 6$ showing on the dice.  The state $011$ is a full house, such as $4,4,1,1,1$ showing on the dice.  The state $00001$ is five of a kind: the yahtzee.
Options can be written using the same notation if we indicate what is showing on any dice that are not re-rolled.  For example, suppose the initial roll shows $1,3,3,5,6$.  Its code is $(31)$ because there are three unique values $1,5,6$ and one doubled value $3,3$.  If we re-roll $1,5,6$, then the dice that remain can be indicated by the code $(01)$.  There are 19 options in total, including re-rolling all dice and the seven states corresponding to re-rolling no dice.  Incidentally, it is convenient to break the rule that all vectors end with a nonzero entry and write $(0)$ for the state where there are no dice: that makes all vectors non-empty.
Computing the probability distribution $F(d)$ associated with an option $d$ is the hardest part of the problem.  This notation makes it easy to figure out what happens when a single die is rolled.  The result is either (a) to increment one of the nonzero entries in the option vector by one, when the roll coincides with one of the faces already showing, or (b) to increment the first entry in the vector by one, when the roll shows a distinct new face.  In fact, (b) can be considered a special case of (a) if we include an (invisible) zeroth entry in each option vector equal to the number of faces not yet appearing.  For example, starting at the option $01$ in which the player has picked up three dice and left two of the same face showing, we examine the augmented vector $(5,0,1)$ (the $5$ is the number of faces not appearing among the two dice).  It can result in the vector $(4,1,1)$ in exactly five different ways and in the vector $(5,0,0,1)$ in one way (the new roll matches the faces that were showing).
Generally, starting with the option $d = (d_1,d_2,\ldots,d_k)$ we may compute the following:

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*Construct the augmented vector $(d_0,d_1,d_2,\ldots,d_k)$ where $d_0$ is the number of faces $f=6$ minus the number of nonzero $d_i$.

*For each position $i$ where $d_i \ne 0$, move to the vector $(d_0,d_1,\ldots,d_{i-1},d_i-1,d_{i+1}+1,d_{i+2},\ldots, d_k)$ with probability $d_i/f$.  (For $i=k$, view $d_{i+1} = d_{k+1} = 0$.)
By performing this (very simple calculation) repeatedly until all five dice have been rolled, we will have determined all possible states reachable from $d$ along with the chances of those states, $F(d)$.  For details, see the outcomes function in the code.
Answers
The chance of achieving a yahtzee is the expected value of the yahtzee indicator $X$ where $X(\text{yahtzee})=1$ and $X(\omega)=0$ otherwise.
The command yahtzee() (using the R code at the end of this post) produces extensive output showing all relevant data structures and intermediate results.  Primary among these is the sequence of payoffs $X_i$:
$payoffs
                   5         31         12        201        011      1001 00001
After 1 0.0126314586 0.02906379 0.02906379 0.09336420 0.09336420 0.3055556     1
After 2 0.0007716049 0.00462963 0.00462963 0.02777778 0.02777778 0.1666667     1
After 3 0.0000000000 0.00000000 0.00000000 0.00000000 0.00000000 0.0000000     1

(This agrees with the table at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahtzee#Any_Yahtzee. That table collapses "31" and "12" into a common category and "201" and "011" into another common category.)
The line at the bottom is the yahtzee indicator $X_3$: the state "00001" is five-of-a-kind, the yahtzee.  The penultimate line is $X_2 = X_3^\prime$: these are the expected payoffs when the best options are chosen in each state.  The first line is $X_1 = X_2^\prime$.  Given the outcome of the initial roll of five dice, it tells us the expected payoff (with best play) for each possibility, one per column.  For instance, if there is one pair showing after the first roll (state "31"), then the chance of achieving a Yahtzee after the third roll is $0.029\ldots$ with best play.
What is that best play?  This is contained in the moves data structure of the output:
$moves
        5   31   12   201   011   1001   00001
After 1 "0" "01" "01" "001" "001" "0001" "00001"
After 2 "0" "01" "01" "001" "001" "0001" "00001"

Note that these give a best move from each state, not necessarily all best moves, and therefore this table can change from one run to the next.  (There's another best move to "1" from state "5", which is intuitively obvious: rerolling all five dice is the same as re-rolling any four of them.)  Nevertheless, it shows that the strategy does not vary from one roll to another and that it amounts to the following:

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*If all five values are different, re-roll all the dice (or, equivalently, all dice but one).

*Otherwise, retain only one of the faces with highest multiplicity and reroll all the others.  (In particular, the best option from "12", which is two pairs, is to retain just one of those pairs and re-roll three dice rather than re-rolling the one odd die.)
Finally, the expected value can be found by consulting the probability distribution $F(d)$ associated with option "0" (no faces showing):
$options
               5        31        12        201        011        1001        00001
0     0.09259259 0.4629630 0.2314815 0.15432099 0.03858025 0.019290123 0.0007716049

When multiplied by the first line of the payoffs matrix ("After 1") and added up, this gives the chance of achieving a yahtzee with best play.  It is equal to $2,783,176 / 6^{10} \approx 0.04602864.$
Incidentally, it is not always the case that a static strategy is the best.  If you want to achieve a full house "011", the best options actually change between the first and second rolls of the dice: try it and see!

Working Code
The following implementation is in R.  I chose R for its popularity on this site (and its free availability), but it's a problematic language for working with any kind of dynamic data structure. It probably has caused many bugs to lurk which I haven't yet ferreted out--but it does work correctly on smaller problems that can be hand-checked and performs well when stepped through in debugging mode on larger problems.
This implementation handles arbitrary numbers of faces (all equiprobable), numbers of dice, numbers of rolls per move, and target states.  (It is easily modified to solve a problem where the target is an arbitrary probability distribution of states, at some cost in flexibility: after all, the code itself computes what those states are, so it's not simple to design a way to input a probability distribution over them.)  As a test, the command
yahtzee("11", 2, 3, 3)

finds optimal play to achieve one pair out of three fair coins, given three rolls.  Its output includes
$payoffs
        11    001
After 1  1 0.9375
After 2  1 0.7500
After 3  1 0.0000

$moves
        11  001
After 1 "2" "1"
After 2 "2" "0"

The last two lines of payoffs and the last line of moves summarize the calculations in the figure above.  Examining the rest of the output and comparing it to the figure ought to clarify the data structures and help understand the code.
#
# Perform one step of a decision analysis.
#
decide <- function(states, payoff, options, available) {
  #
  # Find the best option (and its value) from state `state` given a payoff
  # vector `payoff` indexed by all states.
  #
  # Rows of `options` are probability distributions over the states
  # Columns of `available` are logical indicators of which options are
  # available from each state.
  #
  argmax <- function(state) {
    valid <- available[, state]==TRUE
    expectations <- values[valid]
    names(expectations) <- rownames(available)[valid]
    #i <- which.max(expectations) # Returns definite results
    best <- which(expectations == max(expectations))
    if (length(best) > 1) best <- sample(best, 1)
    return (list(option=names(expectations)[best], value=expectations[best]))
  }
  #
  # Return a list of best (option, value) pairs indexed by the states.
  #
  values <- options %*% payoff # Expected payoff for each option
  x <- lapply(states, argmax)  # Best option and its value, for each state
  names(x) <- states
  return (x)
}
#==============================================================================#
#
# Generate all states and options by rolling dice.
#
yahtzee <- function(target, n.faces=6, n.dice=5, n.rolls=3) {
  #
  # R-specific helper functions.
  # These manage some data types and data structures.
  #
  state.start <- "0"
  identity.matrix <- function(inames) {
    x <- outer(inames, inames, '==')
    rownames(x) <- colnames(x) <- inames
    return (x)
  }
  df.as.matrix <- function(x) {
    rows <- unique(x$start) #$
    cols <- unique(x$end)   #$
    a <- matrix(0, length(rows), length(cols), dimnames=list(rows, cols))
    for (i in 1:nrow(x)) a[x$start[[i]], x$end[[i]]] <- x$prob[[i]] #$
    return (a)
  }
  state.name <- function(s) {
    n <- max(which(s != 0));
    ifelse(n > 0, paste(s <- s[1:n], collapse=""), state.start)
  }
  name.state <- function(x) as.numeric(unlist(strsplit(x, "")))
  #
  # Function to compute the transition probabilities among all possible options.
  #
  outcomes <- function(s, f=n.faces) {
    x <- name.state(s)
    transition <- function(i) {
      r <- (x - (1:n == i) + (1:n == i+1))
      p <- x[i]
      return(list(start=s, end=state.name(r[-1]), prob=p/f))
    }
    x <- c(f - sum(x), x, 0)
    n <- length(x)
    result <- as.data.frame(t(sapply(which(x > 0), transition)))
    return(result)
  }
  #----------------------------------------------------------------------------#
  #
  # Verify that `target` is legitimate.
  #
  if (!missing(target)) {
    s <- name.state(target)
    if (sum(s != 0) > n.faces || sum(s * 1:(length(s))) != n.dice)
      stop(paste0("Target `", target, "` is inconsistent with ",
                  n.faces, " faces and ", n.dice, " dice."))
  }
  #
  # Roll dice to find all possible states and the transition probabilities
  # between them.
  #
  states <- state.start
  x <- list()
  empty <- subset(outcomes(states, n.faces), subset=FALSE)
  for (die in 1:n.dice) {
    x[[die]] <- empty
    for (s in states) {
      x[[die]] <- rbind(x[[die]], outcomes(s, n.faces))
    }
    states <- unlist(unique(x[[die]]$end)) #$
  }
  #
  # Convert the transition graph `x` into an options matrix.
  #
  x <- lapply(x[1:n.dice], df.as.matrix)
  options <- x[[1]]
  for (i in 2:n.dice) options <- rbind(options %*% x[[i]], x[[i]])
  options <- rbind(options, identity.matrix(colnames(x[[n.dice]])))
  available <- ifelse(options != 0, 1, 0)
  #
  # Allocate arrays for the results.
  #
  payoffs <- matrix(NA, n.rolls, length(states))
  colnames(payoffs) <- states
  rownames(payoffs) <- sapply(1:n.rolls, function(i) paste("After", i))
  moves <- payoffs[-n.rolls, ]
  #
  # Compute the final payoff vector.
  #
  if (missing(target)) target <- paste(c(rep(0, n.dice-1), 1), collapse="")
  payoffs[n.rolls, ] <- 0
  payoffs[n.rolls, target] <- 1
  #
  # Perform the decision analysis, roll by roll.
  #
  if (n.rolls > 1) {
    for (i in (n.rolls-1):1) {
      x <- decide(states, payoffs[i+1, ], options, available)
      payoffs[i, ] <- unlist(lapply(x, function(s) s$value))
      moves[i, ] <- unlist(lapply(x, function(s) s$option))
    }
  }
  #
  # Compute the expectation based on the probabilitie of the starting state
  # (that is, of the outcome of the first roll).
  #
  expectation <- as.vector(options["0", , drop=FALSE] %*% payoffs[1, ])

  return (list(expectation=expectation, payoffs=payoffs, moves=moves,
               options=options, available=available,
               target=target, parameters=c(faces=n.faces, dice=n.dice, rolls=n.rolls)))
}


I'm using RFC_READ_TABLE transaction to parse some data from a table in SAP.
ordCollector is a string variable where I add the order numbers respecting the syntax.
ordCollector = "'" & ws.Cells(Rand, 1).Value & "'"
ordCollector = ordCollector + "'" & ws.Cells(Rand, 1).Value & "', "
ordCollector = ordCollector + "'" & ws.Cells(Rand, 1).Value & "'"
tbloptions(1, "TEXT") = "WERKS EQ '0012' AND AUFNR IN ('1234567', '8910111', '2131415')"
I don't know if it' something wrong with the syntax I'm using (if I use chr(24) the workbook stops responding and if I'm not the RFC_READ_TABLE gives me an error.
Any ideas? If you want more details please ask.
And if there are some better ways to do this stuff in VBA I'm open to your sugestions!
nice code, but use for loop already count no of rows.
ordCollector = ordCollector & "'" & ws.Cells(Rand, 1).Value & "', "
Thanks for the tip. The problem is that this piece of code doesn't work. I would appreciate a method to use rfc_read_table for multiple values... (ie. multiple orders in this case). I have the orders in a range and I want to check the material movements on all of them. Any ideas? Thanks guys!
tbloptions(1, "TEXT") = "WERKS EQ '0012' AND AUFNR IN (" & ordCollector & ")"
Problem solved. Instead of IN I'll use OR for tbloptions. It works great!
You have to take a close look at the length of each options statement - when these data is transfered to the SAP functionmodule it happens i text lines of 72 characters each! This meens that you have to think in "line mode" when you build up your options, and one more thing - it is a good idea to start each line with a blank character (try to imagine how the final SQL-statement will look like, when all ljnes are put together in the end).


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